Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] themselves into " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |
| 2 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 3 | People may put themselves into residential care if they wish they will pay the whole of the bill . |
| 4 | More dangerous , those who talk of a British constitution may mislead themselves into thinking that there are parts of the system to which a special sanctity attaches . |
| 5 | Legal : Family members may get themselves into legal difficulties by " covering-up " for the actions of primary sufferers . |
| 6 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |
| 7 | Most remarkable of all , if you take two sponges and treat them both in this extreme way and then mix cells from the two , they will reconstitute themselves into a single mixed-parentage entity . |
| 8 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 9 | Here are people who quite blatantly do n't give a f— for social pleasantries , leastways not when they can lock themselves into a groove and cunningly misplace the key . |
| 10 | This notion of psychological self-help becomes the basis for their feminist politics ( 1979 : 136 ) , the means whereby individuals and collectives can insert themselves into gaps in existing power structures . |
| 11 | Paper pastime CHILDREN who grow bored over the Easter holidays can transform themselves into dinosaurs at London 's Natural History Museum . |
| 12 | Said Keegan : ‘ I 've told the lads they can write themselves into the record books . |
| 13 | ‘ If other people can get themselves into these situations , so can you . ’ |
| 14 | Frustrated and angry babies can cry themselves into a state of fear as they interpret the absence of their mother as an attack upon themselves . |